Stewed Breast of Mutton

Ingredients

• a rather lean breast of mutton
• a little fat or butter
• two onions
• about a quart young green peas
• Two or three slices of bacon
• a bunch of herbs
• sufficient water to just cover the meat

Method

1. 1

   Cut the breast into pieces about two inches square.

2. 2

   Fry in a stewpan with a little fat or butter until brown.

3. 3

   Dredge with flour, add sliced onions and herbs, then pour in enough water to cover the meat.

4. 4

   Simmer gently until tender.

5. 5

   Remove meat, strain and skim fat from gravy, return meat and gravy to the stewpan, add peas, and boil gently until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 362. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Breast ofMutUm take a rather lean breast cut in pieces about two inches square., put into stewpan with a little fat or Dutter, and fry a nice brown : then dredge in a little flour, slice two onions,and put with bunch of nerbs in the stewpan ; pour in sufficient water to Just cover the meat, and simmer the whole gently until mutton is tender. Take out meat, strain and skim ofi* all fat from gravy, and put both meat and gravy back in stewpan ; add about a . quart young green pease, and let boil gently until done. Two or three slices of bacon

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